Increasing demand for robust data communications applications — especially mobile email and instant messaging — will play a role, particularly as 3G speeds improve the appeal of mobile data services. With increasing sales volumes, prices...

Examples show that this single technology has the flexibility to be included in a huge variety of applications.

The carriers were initially against this system. But there has been an education process for them–it is a money-saving proposition for the consumer and the cellular service provider. Now they want to test the waters.

This is a major milestone.

There is a long queue of companies waiting to undergo the same certification process. Then, they can proceed to ‘wave 2’, covering security and quality-of-service, and when they too are certified, we can expect to...